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SASBIROLLI

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and six men who adored her

'BEAUTY AND

VITALITY'

This was Kathleen Ferrier at the height of her fame... a favourite picture.

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vitality and yet I remember to have felt in her singing of this farewell, an ominous meaning.

realise that this was to be her Jost Messiah' for 'she was its fine fettle, not only vocally' (it was extraordinaryhow, her voice remained completely unaffected throughout this period) but physically, Aco, she seemed better.

"And, at a dinner party later,

tow

They tell how, in 16 years, she meteored from the post office switchboard in Blackburn,

the her home town, to great concert halls of Europe and

"I often wonder," he says, America. Audiences capitulated before her voice, Yet "what happened when the fast Kathleen remained the

brave notes faded in the con- simple, • sweet, loving and cort of her life and the trumpets "Since then I cannot think the artist who had earlier in lovable, humorous person on the other side resounded of Mahler without seeing her the day. moved us all. to tears through it all-even in her fiunt with a welcome. more, tumul- before me, without hearing the by her nobly poignant utterance hour of triumph and tragedy.

tuous

than any applause she incomparably beautiful sound of of He was Despised convulsed had known.

her voice, visualising the solemn us with a supremely professional "Did she turn to look round transfiguration in her expres- performance" of a "very naughty on her friends and the world sion. She and this symphony cabaret song." to which she had given an of farewell-forever they will

Sir John almost broke down NEVILLE CARDUS, the generously? And as the shades belong together for me."

She was in. érilic, tells of her early days... of Bach, Handel, Gluck,

HENJAMIN BRITTEN, the once however, how Kathleen, a budding - Schubert, Brahms, Mahler, and composer tells how the world Westminster Hospital a pianist, was at a piano contest Elgar rose to greet one who had lost some of her recordings. She weeks before the end. notes of John, who also knew her life in Carlisle in 1937 when she served them falihfully, did some sang some of his works for the Tito," she said (her nick-

a close, was drawing to

had heard a choir singing next door, nearby spint catch the fainty English Opera Group,

name for him) "I sometimes Orpheus faded away

Sald the 28-year-old Käthleen: whispered words.

'Was It all

Flans to record. rushed a completely new pro-

the pro- In Covent Garden. duction of Orpheus so she could "I think I could make nicer right?'”

gramme were made Just too pass the time trying to see how The voice of the appear in it.

much I can remember of ` my Inte. Several studio dates were words, but I always get stuck in GERALD MOORE, the accom fixed then had to be cancelled singer, Kathleen Ferrier, He had won his race against her a shiling she would not go panist, lalla, at her love of use of her illness. Engineers the same place. Then she was heart-breakingly beauti- death--but Kathleen Ferrier into a contest for contraltos.

began to sing Chaumonis Poeme Kathleen accepted. She won humble friends. When she was never sang in public again.

accoustically sound Sir John Barbirolli, the Tomorrow six famous men will the Rose Bowl-supreme award singing in Holland, her dressing reported to best bedroom and de l'Amour et de la mer, which

But Sir John had once taught her. for a recording session, a conductor, bowed while the heir love and devotion for the age

proclaim before the

of all the North's aspiring young room was crammed with people. reported it

They were "dying to touch her another operation Intervened fashionable audience leaped woman who stole millions

Cardus says: "Great though hand

or foel a glance from her." and in a few months Kathleen She was pressed with invita was dead, i to their feet and showered hearts with her singing and her greater still as Kathleen Ferrier. tions to dine from all sides, but

sho was us a singer, she was flowers on her,

superhuman tourage Kathleen Then the walked to the wings Ferrier, the woman who died too. Not since Ellen Terry nus smilingly refused. Later, with har any artist been so universally. Mr Moore, she drove to a little and collapsed It was her last coon, in the summer of

loved."

restaurant they often used. They performance.

career.

But there was another sido to had a homely supper with the human her.

her. She could tell a ribald patron and his wife. That was The late with all the taste and Kathleen. Holland was at her of her refinement of a, ne lady in a feet, but she chose to be with

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body, but as If, in some act of BIR JOHN BARRIKOLLI, the divine defiance, the glory that conductor, tells of her, last days. was hers remained untouched.""

He deals with the time when

She

she presented a sublimely berole Her acceptance of her awful facade to the world, Even as destiny was Olympian. her long liness dragged from anng as often as she could and months into years, she was indeed reached a premature

These bave been the time to lose. happlest years of my life.........

what a lucky girl I am."

1943 she was unknown: Dravely. and truthfully able to maturity as . It there were no years later she was made Commander of the British Empire, and the Royal Phil hatmonle Boclety gave- her their highest award in music their gold medal..

``DR⠀⠀ BRUNO WALTER," the BOY HENDERSON. her conductor, tells of the last time. teacher, tolls of her search for, he heard her sing-the Forewell perfection. She would anxiously part of Mahler's Song of the hurry, from the concert platform Earth..

Ailera country week-end at He remembers Christmas 1992, the Barbirolli home sho... wrote, Before als audience of 0,000 at "It has been a memorable and Belle Vue, Manchester, she sang lovely few days and I have her last glorious Masetan.

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In my old age" The brave facade was still

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